The thing is that with Librem5 in the terminal you canât ctrl- anything as far as I know, and I did not found what is the right clitck.
Long pressing after selecting text just de-select the text. Long pressing anywhere gives you the option of select all ( which is not what you want) and paste (which is also not what you want).
And doing the select like in X does not put anything in the paperclip ( paste not available anywhere else after doing the selection ).
oh yeah ⌠itâs just now that iâve looked closer and seen that youâve posted under âPhones (Librem 5)â > converging on convergeance anyone ?
Click on the globe-key and choose the âterminalâ mode of the keyboard (which is standard in the terminal app, but also useful to switch to the extended keyboard or to have Cut-Paste functionality in other apps) âŚ
⌠and by clicking âMenuâ key, we get the copy / paste / select Menu.
I did not install anything for to get that functionality (Librem 5 Evergreen Oktober 2021)
It brings up the âpaste / select allâ menu. Then you choose âselect allâ âŚ
and now?
Ctrl C / V does not work (for me). Hence - how to copy it. Clicking again helps nothing and the clipboard shows empty.
If you donât need it of have an easier way, just donât use it.
In general, using the Librem 5, how does a person select a portion of text in any application? For example, with gedit text editor running, there is a paragraph of text in it. I need to select just a couple sentences in the middle of that paragraph to copy to the clipboard. But I canât figure out how to select that.
Sorry amarok, but if you were responding to me, I donât see how that answers my question. Example:
I have a text file with this sentence in it -
The lazy fox jumps quickly over the brown log.
I open the text file and see that sentence in it. I wish to copy to the clipboard (so I can eventually paste elsewhere) the words in the middle of that sentence, âfox jumps quicklyâ.
It requires doing a long press until a word is selected, revealing selection tools under the word. Then you can drag one or both tools to the rest of the snippet you want.
Then in the keyboard, tap Menu to see copy, paste, cut, delete, etc.
Or use the little dialog box with symbols that pops up over the text.
It takes some practice. It helps to drag a little when doing the long press on a word.
If I do a long press in the browser on the text of your answer, I cant select anything. A menu pops up which me also does not select any item of its list. Just give it a shot on my text here in the browser.